A ?Complex? Portrait?

According to The Washington Post, ?a complex portrait? of Black women emerged from a recent nationwide survey the paper conducted with the Kaiser Family Foundation. Researchers polled 808 Black women on a range of issues by telephone between Oct. 6 and Nov. 2 last year. The findings ?reflect the conversations Black women are having among themselves,? Post reporter Krissah Thompson wrote when the results were published on Jan. 23. The results have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Error margins are five points for African-American women and 5.5 points for white women. The listing below shows only some of the responses from the survey.

ISSUE: BLACK WOMEN / WHITE WOMEN??? Very satisfied with your life as a whole these days: 51% / 50%??? Being successful in a career is very important?: 68% / 45%??? Having enough free time to do things you want to do is very important: 62% / 55%??? Being married is very important: 40% / 55%??? Living a religious life is very important: 74% / 57%??? Having children is very important:62% / 75%??? Being wealthy is very important: 22% / 5%??? Being respected by others is very important: 76% / 74%??? Being in a good romantic relationship is very important: 44% / 52%??? Being close with your family is very important: 92% / 93%??? Living a healthy lifestyle is very important: 90% / 78%??? Being physically attractive is very important: 28% / 11%??? Strongly agree that you see yourself as someone who has high self-esteem: 67% / 43%??? Frequently experience stress in your daily life: 40% / 51%??? Very worried about losing your job: 22% / 14%??? Very worried about not having enough money to pay your bills: 38% / 29%??? Very worried about not getting the health care you need: 37% / 31%??? Very worried about you or a family member getting HIV or AIDS: 19% / 2%??? Very worried about being a victim of a violent crime: 21% / 9%??? Very worried about being a victim of discrimination of any kind: 22% / 5%??? Very worried about providing a good education for your children: 39% / 26%??? Very worried about having responsibility for an aging family member: 21% / 23%??? Getting a good education and working hard matters more than coming from money and knowing the right people:78% / 81%Very worried about you or a family member suffering from a chronic illness: 32% / 29%??? ??? Having a child without being married is strongly acceptable: 23% / 26%??? White men in this country are doing very well: 55% / 35%??? Black men in this country are doing very well: 8% / 9%??? White women in this country are doing very well: 38% / 19%??? Black women in this country are doing very well: 15% / 10%??? Considering everything, it is a good time to be a Black woman in America: 73% / 71%??? Identify more with being a woman than being Black/white: 60% / 90%??? Dated someone of a different race:50% / 40%??? Willing to marry someone of another race: 67% / 62%??? Very often treated with less respect than other people: 7% / 3%??? Very often receive poorer service than other people at restaurants or stores: 4% / 2%??? People very often act as if they think you are not smart: 7% / 4%??? People very often ignore or overlook you: 6% / 3%??? The (above four) things happen mainly because of your race: 39% / 3%??? They happen mainly because of your gender: 6% / 30%??? America?s economic system is stacked against Blacks: 46% / 27%??? Racism in our society today is a big problem: 50% / 20%??? Sexism in our society today is a big problem: 36%??? ?/ 18%??? ???